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The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics (1809)

Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834 · London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ... · leaf 215

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r of Poussin ; and, I fear,the monstrous forms, discordant co-lours, and ostentatious display ofornament, which distinguishes thedresses of thefourteenth and fifteenthcenturies, are really more admiredby ladies in their hearts, than thepure taste and modest elegance ofthe Grecian costume. I am…

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